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The Heritage of Rutland Water front pages 10/3/08 08:28 Page 3 The Heritage of Rutland Water Compiled and Edited by Robert Ovens & Sheila Sleath Rutland Local History & Record Society Rutland Record Series No 5 Registered Charity No 700273 – 3 – front pages 7/10/07 10:27 Page 5 Contents Map of Rutland, circa 1840, with Rutland Water superimposed 2 Foreword 7 The Middle Gwash Valley before and after Rutland Water 8 Acknowledgements 9 Introduction and Abbreviations 11 1 Working the Soil – the Generation of Wealth 1086 to 1800 Ian Ryder 13 2 The Agricultural Revolution and Beyond Edward Baines 25 3 Barnsdale Sue Howlett 45 4 Burley on the Hill Sue Howlett 55 5 Edith Weston: A Queen’s Dowry Sue Howlett 93 6 Egleton: A Glimpse into the Past Sheila Sleath & Robert Ovens 117 7 Empingham: An Entire Model Village Sue Lee & Jean Orpin 133 8 Hambleton: The Settlement on the Crooked Hill Sue Howlett 149 Aspects of Topography: Lost Footpaths, Footbridges and Bridleways 192 9 Lower Hambleton in 1797 Sheila Sleath & Robert Ovens 193 Aspects of Topography: An Ancient Ridgeway 210 10 Manton: A ‘Town on a Rock’ Manton Millennium Group with Robert Ovens & Sheila Sleath 211 11 Normanton Sheila Sleath & Robert Ovens 231 Aspects of Topography: The Egleton to Nether Hambleton Road 282 12 Whitwell: A ‘pretty little village’ Sue Howlett 283 13 Changing Communities Paul Reeve 303 Aspects of Topography: Normanton Park Road 314 14 Rutland Waters Robert Ovens & Sheila Sleath 315 Aspects of Topography: A New Wetland Habitat 348 15 Don’t Dam Rutland Hilary Crowden 349 Aspects of Topography: Normanton Bridge 358 16 The Geology of the Middle Gwash Valley Clive Jones 359 Aspects of Topography: Bull Bridge 368 – 5 – front pages 7/10/07 10:27 Page 6 17 Planning and Constructing the Reservoir Robert Ovens & Sheila Sleath 369 Map of Archaeological Sites in the Middle Gwash Valley / Archaeological Timeline 402 18 Brooches, Bathhouses and Bones – Archaeology in the Gwash Valley Kate Don 403 Aspects of Topography: High Bridge Road 414 19 The Archaeologists Sheila Sleath & Robert Ovens 415 20 Medieval Settlements at Nether Hambleton and Whitwell Tim Clough 421 Aspects of Topography: Gibbet Lane 444 21 Lost Homes Sheila Sleath & Robert Ovens 445 Aspects of Topography: The Stamford to Oakham Turnpike 480 22 Rutland Water: Planning and Developing a Water Supply Reservoir as a World-Class Leisure Venue David Moore 481 23 Fauna and Flora before Rutland Water Mike Griffin 499 Aspects of Topography: Old Barnsdale Hill 528 24 Tim Appleton MBE – Thirty Years of Rutland Water Nature Reserve Sue Howlett & Robert Ovens 529 25 The Birds of Rutland Water Terry Mitcham 575 26 A New Home for the Osprey Barrie Galpin 587 27 A Panorama of Activities at Rutland Water Robert Ovens & Sheila Sleath 601 28 Rutland Water Fishing John Wadham 611 29 Sailing on Rutland Water – Rutland Sailing Club Tony Gray & Mike Barsby 625 Aspects of Topography: New Barnsdale Hill 642 30 Extra, Extra, Read all about it! Sheila Sleath & Robert Ovens 643 Bibliography 665 Index 668 – 6 – Lost Homes 7/10/07 12:44 Page 1 Chapter 21 Lost Homes Sheila Sleath and Robert Ovens When over 3,000 acres of land in the Gwash Valley were flooded in order to create Rutland Water, it was inevitable that a great deal would be lost. A pleasant, rural landscape, containing fertile farmland and natural habi- tats, disappeared along with a way of life for those who had to forfeit their homes, farms and livelihoods. An entire hamlet, Nether Hambleton, and its connecting network of footpaths and roads to surrounding communities vanished, and these along with other geographical features were erased from the map. It is difficult to imagine this landscape without water, but fortunately what lay beneath the reservoir is not entirely forgotten. By delving into a vast source of archival material, it is possible to form a picture of what the val- ley, and life within it, was like in former times. Reports and artefacts from archaeological excavations, historical records, literature, old maps, paintings, photographs and people’s memories all help to provide a picture of ‘what used to be’. This chapter deals specifically with homes which were demol- ished to make way for the reservoir. Particular emphasis is given to the houses and former occupants of the lost hamlet of Nether Hambleton. Hambleton originally con- sisted of three parts, Upper, Middle and Nether, but when Nether Hambleton and part of Middle Hambleton were lost as a result of Rutland Water, what remained became simply ‘Hambleton’. The name of Nether, or Lower, Hambleton was always a source of confusion even to those who lived there. Sheila Drake, née Tibbert, who was born at East View in 1944, recorded: ‘We lived in Nether Hambleton which we always The location of called Lower Hambleton. I’m not sure of the correct term. Our address was Upper, Middle and always Lower Hambleton all the time that we lived there, but more recently Nether Hambleton others call it Nether Hambleton. Whether East View and April Cottage [on on J & C Walker’s the Lyndon road from Middle Hambleton] were Lower Hambleton, and map of 1878 Ivydene and Red House round the corner were Nether Hambleton, I don’t know.’ Officially the village was Nether Hambleton, as on Ordnance Survey maps dating from 1824. However, due to its geographical position, it is – 445 – Lost Homes 7/10/07 12:45 Page 2 Sheila Drake moving sheep from Upper Hambleton to East View farm in 1956 (Sheila Drake) understandable that the hamlet was also referred to as Lower Hambleton. It is interesting to note that a 1797 estate notebook (ROLLR DG 7/4/27) list- ing the 9th Earl of Winchilsea and 4th Earl of Nottingham’s tenants (see Chapter 9 – Lower Hambleton in 1797) refers to Lower Hambleton. In general the Hambleton Parish Registers do not differentiate between the three settlements. There are a few references in the burial records to Lower (from as early as 1859) and Middle Hambleton, but none to Nether Hambleton. For the purposes of this chapter, the hamlet and its outlying cottages on the Lyndon road will be referred to as Lower Hambleton. Lower Hambleton The location of houses in Lower Hambleton in 1970 based on the OS 2nd ed 25" map 1904 (RO) – 446 – Lost Homes 7/10/07 12:45 Page 3 Beehive Cottage Prior to being demolished for what was to become Rutland Water, Beehive Cottage was considered to be one of the oldest cottages in Rutland. It was examined in some detail by members of Rutland Field Research Group for Archaeology and History who, from 1973 until 1976, were carrying out an archaeological excavation on the site of a medieval building in a nearby field. They found that Beehive Cottage was of medieval Beehive construction, the materials used being stone, wattle and daub. Ideally it Cottage from should have been dismantled stone by stone and re-erected elsewhere. the north-west It is difficult to identify the early occupants of this cottage. However the in the 1960s. In 1797 notebook indicates that George Clements, his wife Mary and their six the 1930s the children had just moved into Beehive Cottage. George Clements died in rooms at either 1829 and later Census Returns indicate that a Hugh Springthorpe took over end of the cot- the tenancy until at least 1851. One of George Clements’s daughters, tage were bed- Elizabeth, married Hugh Springthorpe in 1822. rooms, with the Beehive Cottage in kitchen in 1970, believed to between. be the oldest Because of the cottage in Rutland roof design, the (Jim Eaton) ceilings in these rooms were very low (Jim Levisohn ARPS) Kemmel Freestone, later of Whissendine, went to live in Beehive Cottage in 1934 when he was 14. He had moved from Trimley Marshes, Suffolk, with his mother and stepfather, Bert West. Bert West and Kemmel both worked for Miss Maud Tryon who farmed at Old Hall, Middle Hambleton. Kemmel recollects: ‘Beehive was very old and very, very damp . There was no upstairs, it was all on one ground floor. You went in the front door into a room, then you went from one room into the next. There was no back door – as you went in, you had to come out the same way. We had a living room and two bedrooms – one on either side of the main room – and a little kitchenette – you couldn’t swing a cat around in it. We always called the kitchenette the “backus” [back-house]. That’s where we did the washing up and all that – where we put the water. You see, there was only my stepfather, my mother – 447 – Lost Homes 7/10/07 12:46 Page 4 and myself and we all lived there and I had a little lean-to place for my own room. Of course I wasn’t very old when I lived there. ‘We got our water from a well in the garden. It had two doors over it which was covered with a large slab of stone. We had to drop a bucket down on a rope to get the water and when it came out the water would be covered with green slime. Sometimes there would be frogs and toads in it. ‘We had a coal fire but although the coalman used to come around on the odd times, we rarely got coal, we mostly used wood. I think my mother had a three-[ring] paraffin burner that she cooked on. We had no electricity but used candles and paraffin lamps that had delicate mantles on them.
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